Red Hat Security Blog: December 2015 archives

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It seems that everyone has a metaphor to explain what containers "are". If you want to emphasize the self-contained nature of containers and the way in which they can package a whole operating system's worth of dependencies, you might say that they are like virtual machines. If you want to emphasize the portability of containers and their role as a distribution mechanism, you might say that they are like a platform. If you want to emphasize the dangerous state of container security nowadays,...